Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of Imagination. -Sofia Kovalevskaya

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his Imagination on a film, then I get to show you my Imagination in a big dumb character. -Idris Elba

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the Imagination. -Emmy Rossum

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away…

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of Imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition. -Joshua Foer

The Imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the Imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the Imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? -Marquis de Sade